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Linda Styles

 
Earthenware pot 2010

 
Address & Contact Details
37 Trevethan Road

Falmouth

Cornwall

TR11 2AS

Tel: 01326 312069

email: styles.linda@googlemail.com

http://www.lindastylesceramics.co.uk


About

   
I tend to use the word 'maker' to describe myself, never have liked labels and categorisation. My main practice is vessel based usually with narrative undertone and mixed messaging. I also sculpt figurative ornament, assemble tile panels, undertake public art projects

I like to think that my work is about something ‘other’ than itself, awkward balance and rhythmic narrative always present, always linked, the tangible object on the shelf representing the sometimes intangible whole.


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Commissions

2007 The Gregg Museum of Folk Art - Requested gift ofceramics.
North Carolina University. 
NC, USA
2006 Hidden Art Curated jug - 21st century interpretation of19th Century decorative jug for Godolphin House.
Lizard, Cornwall
2006 Sand Rose Trust Tiles - 6 logo tiles for bereavedchildren's cottages.
Marazion, Cornwall
2005 Redruth Hospital  - 6 tile panels for display in newmental health wards.
Redruth, Cornwall
2004 Godolphin Arms Ceramic triptych for restaurantoverlooking St Michaels Mount.
Marazion, Cornwall
1996 Chris Neal Design Ltd ceramic mural - large scalearchitectural project, relief sections 6’x 6’ based onindustrial/naturallandscape/seascape.
Truro, Cornwall
1997 Frame Warehouse Piazza - Total redesign andrefurbishment.
Penryn, Cornwall
1995 Sir Terance Conran Breakfast range of breakfasttableware.
Michelin House, London
1994 Tate Gallery  undergraduate commission working andshowing with
Lubna Chowdhary.
St Ives, Cornwall   

Awards

2009 ‘Mark of the Hand’ - CUC academic research (see links page, paper available).
Lizard, Cornwall
2008 ‘Falmouth Gallery Babies project’ - 2 year public art commission
Heritage Lottery funded (see links page, paper available).
Falmouth, Cornwall
2007 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 2’ Public art project undertaken with Lisa Stewart and Joanna Forsyth, Cornwall College, CUC academic
research, European Funding, Arts Council (see links page, paper available).
St Ives, Cornwall
2006 ‘Spontaneous Combustion 1’ Public art project undertaken with Lisa Stewart and Joanna Forsyth, Cornwall College, CUC Academic
Research (see links page, paper available).
Lizard, Cornwall
2004 ‘Burning Issues’ CUC academic research fund (paper available).
Lizard, Cornwall
2001 - 2003 Post Graduate Certificate of Education (Post 16).
2000 'A New Way of Looking at Form and Surface in ceramic' A project undertaken with Pete Smith, Cornwall College academic research fund (paper available).
Redruth, Cornwall
1996-1997 'Low fired simulated sawdust firing' - Research assistant to Pete Smith, Falmouth College of Art Research Award published in Ceramic Review (issue no 163).
London
1996 1st class BA (Hon’s) in Studio Ceramics + 1st class Dissertation award for  'A Deconstruction of Women’s Daily Lives', featuring Bobby Baker performance Artist and the seven virtues (Pilgrims Progress). (Copy available, UCF library).
Falmouth, Cornwall
1996 ‘Setting Out’ - CPA panel selected UK graduate show, Conran range displayed at Craftsman Potters Association.
London
1996 'What's Brewing’? Top UK graduates selected show, (Styles & Ward).
Art Connoisseur Gallery.
London
1995 Ceramic Contempories 2 - Our 3 Rubber spouted Tea pots were one of 60 exhibits selected from 3.000 undergraduate/post graduate submissions, (Prototype Conran range, Styles & Ward).
Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
1995 Society of Designer Craftsmen - Now lapsed, but a memorable interview by Kenneth Clarke at Dickensian head office.
London
1993 Dartington Trust Fund - Cash award with the proviso that I would put my practice back into the community which i believe I have done manifold.
Totnes, Devon
1962 National art competition
I won the South East junior heat with a jungle painting (paintbox prize presented by Tony Hart on a portable stage at Bentalls).
Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey

Press

2009 ‘History in the Making’ Inside Cornwall, Aug, issue number 188
2009 Art – A-Z Degrees, Getting Into University, The Independent Education Supplement, February
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/art-1630750.html
2009 ‘Wild Mums find Art’ Guardian Society, Jan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/jan/05/wild-mums-falmouth-gallery-cornwall                       
2008 ‘Submersive Figures’ Artcornwall.org, Sept
http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions/submersive_figures.htm         
2008, ‘In the Studio’, Inside Cornwall, Sept 177
2008  ‘Children's tiles help build the future of Falmouth building’ Falmouth Packet,
June
2008 ‘Submersive Figures’, Cornwall Culture review by Cath Wallace, August
http://www.cornwallculture.co.uk/
2006 ‘Catch this’ Daily Telegraph, May
2006 ‘On the crest of a new Arts Wave’, The Observer, Nov
2006, ‘Open Studios Cornwall’, Daily Telegraph Travel Supplement, May
2004 ‘The History of Studio Pottery’ Inside Cornwall, Jan, issue number 117
2003 ‘Burning Issues’ Cornwall Today, Nov, issue number 115
2003  'Linda Styles Ceramics' published to accompany the exhibition at Tate St Ives 25/10/2 - 25/01/2004. (A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library, library of congress number 2003111554, copyright Tate Trustees 2003 all rights reserved)
1998 – ongoing ‘British Studio Potters' Marks’, Eric Yates-Owen and Robert Fournier. Published by A&C Black Limited.
1997 'Bonfire Brilliance - Low Fire Simulated Sawdust Firing'.  Ceramic review, January – February, issue number 163
1996 'Hot Seat', Cornwall Today, December



Outlets

Beside theWave, 10 Arwenack Street, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3JA

Tel: 01326211132        
http://www.beside-the-wave.co.uk/

Clare WhiteGallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Wath Road,Elsecar, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ        
Tel: 01226 741817        
http://www.clarewhitegallery.co.uk/

Cornwall CraftsAssociation, Trelissick, Feock, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6QL        
Tel: 01872864514          
http://www.cornwallcrafts.co.uk/

DundeeContemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate Dundee, Scotland, DD1 4DY        
Tel: 01382909900        
http://www.dca.org.uk/

FalmouthGallery, Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2RT        
Tel: 01326213863        
http://www.falmouthartgallery.com/

Jane AdamsCeramics, 41 Fore Street, St Just, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 7LJ        
Tel:01736786695        
http://www.janeadamsceramics.co.uk

LighthouseGallery, 54 – 55 Causewayhead, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2SS        
Tel: 01736350555        
http://www.lighthouse-gallery.com/

The NewCraftsman, 24 Fore St. St. Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE        
Tel: 01736795652        
http://www.newcraftsmanstives.com/

Oriel-Y-FelinGallery,15 Ffordd-y-Felin ,Trefin, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA62 5AX        
Tel: 01348837500        
http://oriel-y-felin.com/

Over the MoonGallery, Churchtown, St. Agnes, Cornwall TR5 OTF        
Tel: 01872552251        
http://overthemoon.co.uk

Richard HagenFine Art, Stable Lodge, 55/57 High St, Broadway, Worcestershire, WR12 7DP        
Tel: 01386853624/858561        
http://www.richardhagen.com/index.shtml

VeryanGalleries, Veryan Green, Roseland Peninsular, Cornwall, TR2 5QQ        
Tel: 01872501469        
http://veryangalleries.co.uk/index.html

Wave 7 Gallery,Plain Street  Trelights,  Port Isaac,  Cornwall, PL29 3TW        
Tel: 01208880605 / 07773 822667        
http://www.wave7gallery.co.uk

WetpaintGallery, The Old Chapel, 14 London Road, Cirencester, Glos, GL7 1AE,        
Tel: 01285644990        
http://wetpaintgallery.com/



 

Linda Styles

Mark of the Hand

Posted By linda styles at 11/08/2009 15:21:19
‘Mark of the Hand’
Trelowarren Gallery
Mawgan-in-Meneage
Lizard
Date of exhibition: 26 July – 6 September 2009
(Preview – 25 July 2009, 6-9pm)
Gallery opening hours – Daily 10.30am – 5.00pm
Contact Name: Linda Styles
Contact Phone Number: 01326 312069
Contact Email: linda.styles@cornwall.ac.uk
Trelowarren Gallery: 01326 221567

A disparate mix of nineteen craftsmen and women, have been invited to exhibit an eclectic and exciting array of contemporary and archive ceramics, joined by ‘makers of tomorrow’, represented by our most recent Graduates who will be showing a group exhibit selected from their final 2009 HND show. Also on display will be examples of relevant mid 20th century studio pottery (Janet Leach, William Marshall, Harry and May Davis), which have been kindly loaned by private collectors to provide a very special and fascinating showcase of historically important work.

The core research base for this project is intrinsically linked to the mid 20th Century Vocational Pottery courses held at Redruth School of Art and the inception of The Cornwall Crafts Association, based on subjective recollections, factual reference, images and examples of work and thoughts connected to the 'studio pottery' tradition, taking into account the transitionary backlash 'fine art principled' freeform ceramics and evolvement of Post modern design principles that have led us to where we stand today.

This celebratory exhibition is purposely timed to mark the closure of the long running, ever changing Higher National Diploma in Design Crafts Ceramics, which has run for twenty-seven years from 1982 - 2009

Linda Styles July 2009

“The story here is of the remarkable and highly innovative craft of ceramics, a reflection upon the rich and vivid history of specialist vocational study of ceramics in Cornwall, of students, teachers and advisors who, over the decades, have taken part in a spirited exercise which is about learning to make from clay.

Mark of the Hand is not only about an exciting collection of ceramic pieces, but also about the history, the subjective recollection, which surrounds them. On display are memoirs and archival material, which give rich context to this exhibition. An exhibition to delight makers and lovers of ceramics, but also those interested in an intriguing Cornish legacy”.

Jenny Leighton for Inside Cornwall magazine (August 2009)

www.insidecornwall.co.uk


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